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Kinder an die Macht

Die Interessen der jungen Generation spielen in den Wahlprogrammen kaum eine Rolle. Kinderrechte müssen gestärkt werden – auch im Grundgesetz. "Die Welt gehört in Kinderhände … Kinder an die Macht", schrieb Herbert Grönemeyer im Jahr 1986. Heute sind unsere Kinder weiter von Macht und politischer Teilhabe entfernt als je zuvor in den letzten 75 Jahren. Dabei wäre die Welt ein ganzes Stück besser, wenn ...

FGZ Datenmonitor 2025#1: Spaltet die AfD die Gesellschaft? Eine Regionalanalyse gruppenbezogener Sympathien auf Basis des German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP)

The Provision of External Expertise in the Field of Monetary and Financial Affairs (Monetary Expert Panel)

Wissenschaftler*innen der Abteilung Makroökonomie sind Teil des Expertengremiums für Geldpolitik des Europäischen Parlaments. Laut Vertrag über die Arbeitsweise der Europäischen Union (AEUV) ist die EZB gegenüber dem Europäischen Parlament rechenschaftspflichtig. Die vierteljährlichen Treffen zwischen der Präsidentin der EZB und dem ECON-Ausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments sind als „Monetärer...

Cristóbal Moya successfully defended his dissertation

On December 11, Cristóbal Moya successfully defended his dissertation with the title “The Politics of Unjust Inequalities: From Injustice Perceptions to Protest and Redistribution” at Bielefeld University. The committee included Prof. Dr. Carsten Sauer (supervisor and first reviewer, Bielefeld University), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (second reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Sonja Blum (committee chairmanship, ...

Pandemic-Ready Data: Linking the Socio-Economic Panel with Administrative Health Records

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in Germany’s ability to generate timely, equity-sensitive evidence at the household level. While national surveillance systems produced daily counts of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, they offered little insight into the social and economic conditions shaping the spread and impact of the virus. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), ...

The Early Bird Gets the Germs? The Impact of Early Daycare Attendance on Children’s Health

In recent decades, the share of very young children in daycare has significantly increased in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the critical role of child health in development and later life success, the impact of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. This study examines the effects of a substantial daycare expansion in Germany on ...

Split Between Accelerationists, Pivoters, and the Unwavering: CEE Energy Policy Responses to Russia’s 2022 Invasion

Dynamic Networks of Social Contact, Social Desire, and Affect Across Time Scales

Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...

Fuel Taxation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from the World’s Largest Environmental Tax Reform

We investigate how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities by evaluating the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Using spatially detailed emissions data from more than 1,000 European regions in a synthetic difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the impact of Germany’s 1999 ecological tax reform on transport-related carbon and air pollutant emissions. We document sizable ...

Fuel Taxation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from the World’s Largest Environmental Tax Reform

We investigate how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities by evaluating the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Using spatially detailed emissions data from more than 1,000 European regions in a synthetic difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the impact of Germany’s 1999 ecological tax reform on transport-related carbon and air pollutant emissions. We document sizable ...